Priti Patel’s ultimate victory won’t be merely if Australia-style Rwanda flights ever take off. It will be if Labour sends them.
Whether you see the glass as still half-empty, rather than half-full, the question we all face is the same one. If we are starting from here, now, can we imagine again a sense of the future that we do want to share?
First, Islamist extremism will use woke like a human shield. Then, once it has exhausted its purpose, it will cast aside, like that LGBT flag last Saturday.
As his options narrow, Sunak has little choice but to get back to first principles, which would be the right course anyway.
My hunch is the next generation of aspiring leaders will have a firmer grip on the meaning of conservatism than the current crop. Or, at least, I hope so — otherwise there might not be a party to lead.
The Levelling Up Secretary added that the Home Secretary had made “thoughtful points” that “we do need to ensure we have a core of values that everyone who lives here accepts.”
Well-founded concerns about the suitability of post-war international agreements to modern global conditions are not strengthened by being lumped together with attacks on multiculturalism.
Cleverly highlighted his pride in Britain’s multiculturalism.
And if he is strong and the West weak, why has his Ukraine invasion gone wrong – and why are our governments showing unity and resolution?
While Muslims here feel comfortably British, French Muslims must conceal their religious convictions to be respectable citizens.
But beware, Prime Minister: there is no divine right of parties any more than there was a divine right of kings.
The fifth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
The framing of “facts versus feelings” won’t work for the liberal right on race any better than it has for the liberal left on immigration.
Collecting statistics on people’s self-identified racial background is one thing. Having ringfenced funding for one racial group is quite another.
That is why Robert Jenrick’s amendment to the Justice and Crime Bill, mandating the reporting of statistics on the nationality and visa or asylum status of offenders, is a welcome step